On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:26:06 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>>
>> dear god, yes. i don't know if it started with the relatively few people
>> who suffer from 'chinese restaurant syndrome' (though oddly enough, a
>> connection to m.s.g. can't be shown in any kind of controlled study) or as
>> a carry-over from anti-salt hysteria (omgomg!!! it has sodium in it! it's
>> right there in its *name*!!!).
>
> For several years, I believed my reactions to
> Chinese restaurant food were caused by MSG.
> It was only in 2002 that I discovered my
> symptoms were caused by eating tofu. bean
> protein gives me intense migraine headaches.
> I almost never have headaches, now that I know
> that.

that seems to be the case with many 'chinese restaurant syndrome'
sufferers. (maybe not tofu, but some other rarely-encountered foodstuff.)
but the popularization of m.s.g. dread made that self-diagnosis easy.

your pal,
blake